Local petroleum retailers responded to a government deadline yesterday by agreeing to adopt a flexible pricing mechanism to reflect fluctuations in global oil prices, but there will not be any immediate price reductions, according to a Commerce Ministry spokesperson. ...

Authorities in Siem Reap yesterday blocked a march celebrating International Human Rights Day (IHRD), as officials in Phnom Penh reiterated their threat to shut down a planned mass rally in the capital on thursday.As IHRD, officially on December 10, approaches, associated demonstrations across the Kingdom ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that the government would cancel its contract with the AZ Group of Companies, which has collected tolls along National Road 4 since 2002. ...

As the Kingdom grapples with water shortages, the Ministry of Rural Development and NGO Plan International have set a goal to bring clean water sources to 60 per cent of Cambodia’s 12 million rural residents by 2018.    ...

Cambodia is close to signing an ambitious agreement with the Indonesian government that would pave the way for the Kingdom’s rice producers to export 1 million tonnes of rice under a new quota scheme, a state official said yesterday. ...

TelecommunicaTions officials have raised The possibiliTy ThaT a series of hacks againsT governmenT officials and minisTries could have been so-called SS7 aTTacks, a recenTly discovered hacking meThod ThaT involves Taking over a person’s cellphone number. AT a meeTing wiTh local cell companies on Tuesday, officials ...

The governmenT earned jusT over $25 million in renTal fees from sTaTe land leased To privaTe companies in The firsT six monThs of The year, according To new figures from The MinisTry of Economy and Finance. While The daTa shows ThaT earning have risen, criTics say ...

The governemnT yesTerday denied a recenT news reporT ThaT discussions were under way To have Cambodian domesTic workers senT To Singapore. An Bunhak, chairman of The AssociaTion of Cambodian RecruiTmenT Agencies (ACRA), said he did noT know of any immediaTe plans To send maids To ...

While the global economic crisis weakened the ability of Cambodian households to purchase food, the government’s focus on agricultural production and other policies have since helped alleviate food insecurity in the country, the U.N. Conference on trade and Development said in a new report. Between June ...

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey treng II village chief Hang Suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five ...

Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame the tatay and other rivers of Koh Kong province, ...

Security forces and employees of a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province continued to drive families out of their homes yesterday ahead of today’s government-imposed eviction deadline. Officials and villagers say most of the roughly 200 families have already left. With more than 300 security personnel posted ...

By 8 p.m. on the day of the July 28 election, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith was declaring victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP with 68 seats to the opposition’s 55. In the days that followed, preliminary results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) arrived ...

As mass demonstrations by garment factory workers continued Monday, the government laid out plans to bring an end to the labor unrest within the next three days, including suing union leaders in the courts and mobilizing security forces to take unspecified action. Signed by Council ...

Returning from a state visit to Japan on tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its Asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with tokyo might strain its ...

The UniTed STaTes governmenT on Wednesday launched a HIV research projecT in Cambodia, aiming To collecT and disseminaTe criTical daTa ThaT will help The counTry in The fighT againsT HIV. Men Chean RiThy, coordinaTor for The newly-launched HIV InnovaTe and EvaluaTe ProjecT, said The U.S. provided ...

The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) on Friday voiced iTs supporT for Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s governmenT as anTi-governmenT proTesTs have inTensified in recenT weeks. “The RCAF vows To supporT The leadership of Prime MinisTer Hun Sen in The fifTh Term governmenT,”The MinisTry of Defense ...

A government committee charged with assessing damage from the garment worker protests in December and January has put the value of the destruction at over $250,000. It places blame squarely on the opposition CNRP and a trio of union leaders. that committee’s report, released thursday, ...

With thailand and Cambodia both feeling the pinch from the sudden exodus of more than 200,000 Cambodian workers out of thailand, the two countries are now working together to try and get them back to their old jobs legally, as fast as possible. Some 225,000 Cambodians, ...

Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum tuesday. there were 1,910 deaths due to ...